Tag: MIXTAPE

Dragontape, the service that has nothing to do with dragons and everything to do with dragging YouTube videos onto a "tape," has launched a feature that probably should have been there from the beginning: embedding. You can now embed your YouTube-derived mixtapes on your blog or even Facebook, since oEmbed is used to ensure the widest possible compatibility. The embedded video player looks great ...

At first, I thought that Dragontape had something to do with dragons, but sadly, it doesn't. It's more along the lines of "drag on tape," which means that you get a long, long timeline (or "tape") and you drag YouTube videos onto it. The goal is to create a playlist, such as this staff pick playlist featuring street music. A playlist can be up to three hours long, which is a tad extreme if you ...

I've lost count of the times new audio playlist sites have popped up and been compared to the heyday of Muxtape. Comparisons are inevitable, though, when we talk about the latest -- and possibly the greatest -- in a long chain of mixtape sites that never quite seem to catch on: Mixtape.me. It grabs music from around the web, notably from Seeqpod, and does a great job of letting you make and browse ...

I have fond memories of Muxtape, which briefly reigned last year as the online music sharing method of choice for hipsters everywhere. Well, Muxtape is finally back, after shutting down for a while due to problems landing an affordable licensing deal for the music that was getting passed around on the service. It's a different kind of service now, although the interface looks the same. Now ...

If you're a fan of the breakout mixtape-sharing service Muxtape, you've probably noticed that they've been down for a while, dealing with a complaint from the RIAA. Who knows how long that could take, or whether they're even going to be back up at all? What's a mixtape lover to do? Well, some ingenious Muxtape fans have cooked up an open source solution for hosting your own mixes, using an ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2008/03/20/mixwit-make-your-mix-tapes-online/"; Remember when you put together mix tapes on cassettes and lovingly wrote the song titles in microscopic script on the tape label, maybe even including artistic doodles? Remember the recorded intro you did for the recipient? Remember the songs you selected? Each one chosen for its particular meaning - a ...

In the heady days of the early nineties, when some of us were still in high school (not saying who), there was no finer way of communicating adoration to a crush than to dub them a mix tape. A little Stone Temple Pilots and a little Journey--whatever sent the message that was on your mind. The mix tape went out of style as digital music came in, and there hasn't been quite anything to replicate ...

In my day we didn't have the fancy iTunes apps with the shuffle buttons. We had to dig into meatspace music containers and actually think about what song comes next... Ah, the lost art of the "mix tape," made for too many lost sweethearts to mention here. So if you're just too lazy to make your own mix, or thinking about hitting that shuffle button (in whatever player you're using) isn't ...